Any agreement, MOU or deed that is in final form and ready to be signed by the UNE delegate must be sent to the Contracts Officer along with a Request for Legal Approval form (RLA).

The RLA is an instruction to the Legal Office that an agreement, MOU or deed has School and Faculty or Directorate approval and is ready to be signed by UNE. It is a risk management procedure to make sure UNE does not sign unapproved, draft or incorrect agreements, MOUs or deeds.

There are two RLAs. One for contractor agreements for goods and services, the other for research, UNE consultancy and other agreements (that are not contractor agreements for goods and services).

The RLA must be completed by the person with operational responsibility for the agreement and signed by that person and the Head of School, Director or equivalent. It contains a series of questions that must be answered and, where it requests attachments, those attachments must be with the RLA or the RLA will be returned to the officer for completion.

Please contact the Contracts Officer if you have any questions about the RLA or process of having agreements, MOUs or deeds signed by UNE.

Legal Office

Below is a summary only of the process for both Contractor Agreements and Research and Other Agreements. If you require any clarification regarding the agreement approval process, please contact the Legal Office via email legal@une.edu.au or by telephone on 6773 3096 or 6773 4071.

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